Tonido running great on Ubuntu 10.10 (desktop) but will only autostart when a user logs in. I'd ideally like Tonido to start without any human interaction when the machine itself boots.

I've read the various posts here: viewtopic.php?f=14&t=607
and here: viewtopic.php?f=14&t=2597&p=13138&hilit=ubuntu#p13138

..but the requirment's there were different.

Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

If you add the tonido start routine to /etc/init.d, it should start without user login.
Did you try that?

Thank you for the reply Tuxedo,

Yes in etc/init.d/tonido.sh I've got the following:

#!/bin/sh -e
sleep 10
exec /usr/local/tonido/tonidostart.sh

...but unless I actually login, I'm getting "Tonido Service Unavailable".

When you open the login screen, do you just enter the password or do you select a profile and then enter the password.

Normally, if Tonido starts it should login into your account whether you login or not via the UI.

Thanks for the reply madhan, and that's a good question. I've done some more testing and here's the situation:

1. I boot the server but don't login directly.
Accessing the server via webmin I can see that tonido is NOT a running process at this point.

2. If I then Login in as a normal user Tonido does not start autmoatically.

3. If I finally login as root Tonido DOES start automatically and appears as you would expect as a running process.
( 2829 root 14:55 /bin/sh -e /usr/local/tonido/tonidostart.sh)

Tonido therefore appears to be owned by root and only seems to start if I actually physically login as root.

Where to from here?

Hi folks, I'd really appreciate suggestions on this one.

I guess the root of the problem is that your startup script is not being executed until you login as a "root". I think that is the issue here. Toindo will start as long as the right startup script calls it during boot up.

Thanks madhan. You've restated my problem perfectly. So how do I fix this? I thought all scripts in the etc/init,d were owned by root anyway so I'm not sure what I need to change

Ok...mysterion, lets try to get the startup calls right.
I think the problem is because of tonidostart.sh. This script tries to start a process tonidogtk which can work only when it is attached to an UI.
You can try these steps to start the non-gui version of tonido.

1) You should have a file called tonido.sh in your tonido installation directory. (I am going to assume the installation directory as /usr/local/tonido. Please update these instructions as per your installation directory)


2) Edit the copied file /etc/init.d/tonido and change the following value.
From To After making this change, save the file.

3) Add the script to startup routines.


4) Now try restart your system. Tonido should start automatically. The only thing you won't see is the icon on the taskbar because it is not attached to a GUI anymore.

Tuxedo, thank you so much for taking the time to detail these steps. I'll try it out on Monday when I'm next in the office and report back.

Thanks again